Top: Henry Pollan and Ela Sokolowska invited the entire Chilkat Valley to their wedding celebration on Saturday, July 20, in Haines. Middle row: Collette Costa, Taylor Vidic, Salissa Thole, and Shona Strauser performed with High Costa Living from Juneau while dancers cut a rug for hours as the sun set.

Passengers headed down Haines’ cruise ship dock toward a waiting Holland America cruise ship on July 24, 2024, in Haines. About 150 people, primarily cruise ship passengers who had disembarked in Skagway, were trapped by a landslide in Canada and then bussed several hundred miles to Haines to rejoin their cruises. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Carol McConahy shows one of the quilts available for auction during the 2024 Southeast Alaska State Fair in Haines, Alaska. Proceeds from the auction will go to the Haines Hot Shots. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Carol McConahy shows one of the quilts available for auction during the 2024 Southeast Alaska State Fair in Haines, Alaska. Proceeds from the auction will go to the Haines Hot Shots. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Carol McConahy in her Haines studio gets quilts ready for the second annual small quilt auction at the 2024 Southeast Alaska State Fair. Proceeds from this year’s auction will go to the Haines Hot Shots. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Haines high School alumni from the classes of 1973 and 1974 celebrated their 50-year high reunion over the weekend with a series of events including this Haines High School and 70s-themed trivia night at the Pioneer Bar on July 19, 2024, in Haines.

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...